As mentioned on the site last year, months before
the National Security Agency's PRISM spying scandal broke regarding
former computer contractor, Edward Snowden, bravely releasing
documents and digital files confirming illegal spying activity by
the government, I’d applied to the NSA for a copy of my file under
the Freedom of Information Act. The NSA politely declined to give me
my file. However, now I don’t feel so bad, because German
Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was just denied a copy of her file as
well. If she can't get her file there was next to no chance I would
be getting mine.

Angela Merkel

Merkel is an ally of President Obama, but that
didn’t stop him from spying on his foreign counterpart,
wiretapping her phones and hacking her emails. To honor the Freedom
Of Information Act enacted by Congress and release her file to
Chancellor Merkel, would confirm what Obama has questionably done,
regarding her and others.

The part I dislike about this and have from the
start is when the government declines Freedom of Information Act
requests, it gives the public the false impression you’ve done
something you shouldn’t have for the government to have spied on
you. However, as has been shown by the PRISM scandal, the government
has been amassing illegal files on writers such as myself, whose
websites or newspapers release articles
with exclusives that breaks stories exposing unlawful
conduct or items critical of the government violating the
Constitution.

Thursday 10 April 2014 13.31 EDT - Frustration with
US government rises over failure to clear up questions about
surveillance of German chancellor's phone. Angela Merkel, the German
chancellor. The US government's refusal to allow Merkel access to
her own NSA file contrasts with the ease with which Germans can see
files relating to the activities of the Stasi. The US government is
refusing to grant Angela Merkel access to her NSA file or answer
formal questions from Germany about its surveillance activities,
raising the stakes before a crucial visit by the German chancellor
to Washington.

Merkel will meet Barack Obama in three weeks, on her
first visit to the US capital since documents leaked by
whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA had been
monitoring her phone. The face-to-face meeting between the two world
leaders had been intended as an effort to publicly heal wounds after
the controversy, but Germany remains frustrated by the White House's
refusal to come clean about its surveillance activities in the
country.

In October, Obama personally assured Merkel that the
US is no longer monitoring her calls, and promised it will not do so
in the future. However, Washington has not answered a list of
questions submitted by Berlin immediately after Snowden's first
tranche of revelations appeared in the Guardian and Washington Post
in June last year, months before the revelations over Merkel's
phone...